Genetic response to an environmental pathogenic agent: HLA-DQ and onchocerciasis in northwestern Ecuador

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 123-129

  de Angelis, F ^a   Garzoli, A ^a   Battistini, A ^a   Iorio, A ^a   de Stefano, G F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Ecuador; Human leukocyte antigens; Onchocerciasis

Indexed keywords

HLA DQA1 ANTIGEN; HLA DQB1 ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ECUADOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE SPECIFIC OLIGONUCLEOTIDES HYBRIDIZATION; SEQUENCE SPECIFIC PRIMER AMPLIFICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ALLELES; AMERICAN NATIVE CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA PRIMERS; ECUADOR; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HAPLOTYPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA-DQ ALPHA-CHAINS; HLA-DQ BETA-CHAINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS;

EID: 84855485046     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: 13990039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2011.01811.x     Document Type: Article

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